Frances Gray Patton Professions : Short story writer Born : March 19, 1906 Died : March 28, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Frances Gray Patton Restraint is the better part of beauty. Frances Gray Patton restraint empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions. Frances Gray Patton empathy emotion humans To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character. Frances Gray Patton errors steps character Similar Authors Arthur Shearly Cripps short-story-writer Ivan Vladislavic short-story-writer Deborah Eisenberg short-story-writer Doris Betts short-story-writer Diriye Osman short-story-writer Deb Olin Unferth short-story-writer All Authors